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CVE-2018-15801

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CVE-2018-15801

Published: Dec 19, 2018

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

3.3

LOW

Description

Spring Security versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.2 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability during JWT issuer validation. In order to be impacted, the same private key for an honest issuer and a malicious user must be used when signing JWTs. In that case, a malicious user could fashion signed JWTs with the malicious issuer URL that may be granted for the honest issuer.

VendorProductVersions

Spring by Pivotal

Spring Security

affected
5.1.x - < 5.1.2

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

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